Relaxation of Restrictions, Part XII *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

The crowds would flock to the games if they did move them across.

If I couldn't get a ticket to a game i'd still go for the buzz in the pubs imagine the craic..!. I'd probably have tears of happiness rolling down my face as I hug random strangers in Irish Jerseys..or any nationality really haha. I'd even be smiling while standing in a long queue for the ladies...cos it would feel 'normal' 🤣!!

One possibility could be that frequent vaccination in fact reduces the natural immunity that comes from T-cells, and consequently more and more people contract the virus as T-cells become less effective.

is there any science on what 4 shots of mRNA do to the immune system? That was a rhetorical question btw.

in my opinion whoever recommends these vaccines to healthy young people and kids is a charlatan.

What closing time would you suggest? And what's the science for it?

Are we officially at the point where the general public has to argue their case not to be restricted?

Its not so long ago that Leo was saying this: "Freedom was hard won in our country, and it jars with us, to restrict and limit individual liberties, even temporarily."

Or is restriction now the default, there to stay unless we can justify otherwise?

I can see an Omicron (or whatever the next variant is) booster being available in September/October. And that will be the start of an annual Covid booster campaign for those at risk and healthcare workers etc.

i think we could have a period each winter where we have 10pm shutting during xmas, to curb too much flu season.

A 5th dose obviously.

Its takes some neck to pretend that any of what happened was to protect the children. Or is throwing children under the bus actually just for their own good?

Closing time IMO should revert back to normal pre pandemic.

Restrictions didn’t work over Christmas, we ended up being the 7th worst in the world per capita for cases, thankfully vast majority was a mild flu.

What’s the point in opening up to 11pm/12pm where businesses and hospitality are still not operating as normal. Nightclubs are still being punished and looks like they won’t be allowed open, when will they be allowed open? I say that as someone who’d never mind if I didn’t stand in another nightclub again btw.

Wow!!.what an ignorant post...can change career if they really want to!? Why should they..? So some people can avoid a commute??. Maybe those people could really change their careers to work closer to their children!! If it was that easy.

What a bizarre and selfish response...the LAST person's view I will look at this from, with sympathy and compassion, are the people who were the least effected with their full time secure jobs on a laptop at home...thousands of peoples livelihoods and families have been destroyed as a direct result of these restrictions...

Children's lives damaged from a commute!!.. and people commiting suicide all over the country..give me strength..

The smart thing to do now would be to go back to the October 22nd reopening ASAP, if cases continue to fall after that i can't think of a good reason for further restrictions. Unfortunately we have an old bald idiot in charge, sooner FFG go the better

I agree but say as you said the sooner FFG go the better. Then what? SF in power who have been more in favour of restrictions than the current lot are in power. The govt has been diabolical but the opposition has been worse.

SF aren't the ones blindly following the recommendations of NPHET, no matter how off the wall they seem to be